Example sentences of "from [noun] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years later , again at Daytona , on 11 March 1929 , he recaptured the record from the American Ray Keech at 231.362 m.p.h. in Golden Arrow , designed by Captain J. S. Irving with a 900-hp aero-engine hired from Napier and originally designed for the Schneider trophy winner Supermarine seaplane . |
| 2 | Cases range from the severely handicapped person who may be physically helpless and incapable of coherent speech , to the highly acceptable , responsible person , earning a living , looking after themselves , obtaining considerable enjoyment from life and from relationships but generally regarded as not very bright . |
| 3 | He knew nothing about drill , but learned the necessary movements from books and soon gained promotion to chief petty officer . |
| 4 | It was rumoured that banknotes were never withdrawn from circulation but simply frayed away . |
| 5 | Some 10,000 neo-Fascists from Spain and elsewhere assembled in Madrid 's Plaza Oriente on Nov. 17 to commemorate the 16th anniversary ( on Nov. 20 ) of the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco . |
| 6 | She set all the animals out in a long line , headed by the lions ; a circus parade carved from wood and delicately coloured . |
| 7 | Courier , who had not played well during the first two sets , said he received a pep talk from Agassi that really picked up his spirits . |
| 8 | There were many branches of the Northumbrian dynasty , however , and many noble families who claimed descent from Ida and thereby expressed aspirations to the kingship . |
| 9 | This finding is in line with a study from Sweden that also found a significant increase in incidence during the shorter period 1970–84 , resulting in twice the incidence in women as in men . |
| 10 | The larger town of Keszthely , on Lake Balaton , is a short bus ride away from Heviz and easily reached . |
| 11 | It was withdrawn from service and probably scrapped . |
| 12 | The results suggested that the birds might have sharply tuned preferences only slightly displaced away from siblings when normally reared . |
| 13 | The best of them learned the basic principles from AlB and subsequently broadened their knowledge as their experience expanded . |
| 14 | Psychologically Britain , having escaped occupation during the war , felt separated from Europe and still thought in terms of maintaining her independent status as a great power . |
| 15 | The NUT , reporting to the Younger Committee on Privacy in 1972 , proposed that reports about a child 's misbehaviour should be kept from parents and that information on the pupil or his home background ‘ which might be gleaned from hearsay or possibly based on malicious gossip ’ should not be kept on a permanent record . |
| 16 | Widespread in the Pacific is Broussonetia papyrifera ( Moraceae ) , originally from Asia and now grown from China and Japan through Malesia to America , where it is naturalized : it is the basis of Polynesian tapa cloth , which is made from its bark . |
| 17 | Situated in Aldwark village on the banks of the River Ure , Aldwark Manor is just 15 miles from York and ideally situated for touring the Yorkshire Dales and moors . |
| 18 | Other people 's lives are separated from employment but profoundly influenced by the administrative practices of the state , both local and national . |
| 19 | During the 1960's Noam Chomsky popularised the view that human languages together share certain universal grammatic features , and that language is not learnt from scratch but rather acquired by brain centres sensitive to this underlying syntax . |
| 20 | Rosa sempervirens and R. centifolia muscosa were despatched in 1735 , R. pimpinellifolia and R. palustria ( from America and also known as the Marsh or Swamp Rose ) in 1739 . |
| 21 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |
| 22 | Finer I never saw or tasted from Barbados or better cured . |